This is episode 1,669.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself this time to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

In today's episode, you are going to explore a meditation technique that will help you to feel grounded and more confident

as you go about your fresh start this week.

Last week's series is spilling over a little into this week's series

because last week was about selecting a virtue to focus on or a word of the year and

this is different from a resolution or a goal. Those are important too,

but those are more focused on your likes, what you want, the experiences you want to have.

And that is very important because sometimes that's what moves the needle. If we don't have

goals and projects and different things we're striving for, we can become so complacent.

Not much make it done.

So have your resolutions and your goals and also have a virtue you want to focus on to become a better person so that it's not so

much about the experiences you have but about that the kind of person you become,

of person you become, because that will provide you

with true inner joy, not fleeting happiness, but a deep inner joy.

So the meditation technique I share with you today is a moodra.

Many of you tell me moodras are one of your favorite techniques

and some of you, especially if you are new to meditation, you might not know what a

a moodra is. A moodra is a way you position, in this case, your hands and fingers to activate a corresponding region

of your brain.

How you position your body stimulates different areas of your brain. That's how

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